US patent 5473599

Thu May 8 10:25:39 UTC 2014

* Eygene Ryabinkin <rea at grid.kiae.ru> [2014-05-08 11:12]:
> Henning,
> Thu, May 08, 2014 at 09:35:00AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Blake Dunlap <ikiris at gmail.com> [2014-05-08 03:19]:
> > > Except for that whole mac address thing, that crashes networks...
> > this lie doesn't get any more true by repeating them over and over.
> So, you insist that VRRP and CARP instances with the same VRID/VHID in
> the same L2 segment will coexist peacefully?  I had seen problems with
> such setup, so if you can enlighten me how to overcome them (rather
> than saying "you must choose different VRID/VHID") -- it will be very
> good.

you shouldn't see issues but log spam.

I haven't seen anotehr issue and I haven't seen a single report
claiming otherwise over the last 10 years either, minus the mentioned
cisco 3600 "don't bother checking the version number field before
parsing on" screwup.

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